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Box 1

 Container

Contains 13 Collections and/or Records:

Sheetmusic: Song from Milton's Comus - Sweet Echo... (an optional version for orchestra, from the score for soprano and orchestra)

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of sheet music composed by two twentieth-century Houstonians, Frantz H. Brogniez and John R. Cardone. Accompanying the scores of eleven pieces by Brogniez is a biographical note written by Alice G. Brogniez, his third wife. His items also include the certificate of his appointment to the Academie Artistique Scientifique et Litteraire de Hainaut which he was awarded in 1893 for composing the oratorio “Jair.”The material by Cardone consists of photocopies...
Dates: 1899-1976

Score: Prelude to Comus (for orchestra) - 2 copies

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of sheet music composed by two twentieth-century Houstonians, Frantz H. Brogniez and John R. Cardone. Accompanying the scores of eleven pieces by Brogniez is a biographical note written by Alice G. Brogniez, his third wife. His items also include the certificate of his appointment to the Academie Artistique Scientifique et Litteraire de Hainaut which he was awarded in 1893 for composing the oratorio “Jair.”The material by Cardone consists of photocopies...
Dates: 1899-1976

Newsclippings - Cardone's musical career, circa 1970s-1990s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of sheet music composed by two twentieth-century Houstonians, Frantz H. Brogniez and John R. Cardone. Accompanying the scores of eleven pieces by Brogniez is a biographical note written by Alice G. Brogniez, his third wife. His items also include the certificate of his appointment to the Academie Artistique Scientifique et Litteraire de Hainaut which he was awarded in 1893 for composing the oratorio “Jair.”The material by Cardone consists of photocopies...
Dates: circa 1970s-1990s